Josh Hammer – American Greatness

The Chosen One

Josh Hammer — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:00:49 +0000

I think it was 2019 when I first interacted with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). I had just finished my judicial clerkship and begun my career […]

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Democrats Only Have Themselves to Blame for Their Joe Biden Mess

Josh Hammer — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:00:36 +0000

It has been two weeks since palpably senile President Joe Biden delivered the single worst performance ever given in a presidential debate, and the fallout […]

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They Lied to You

Josh Hammer — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:00:36 +0000

Lying is certainly nothing new in politics. It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, but politics is assuredly the dirtiest—filthier even than […]

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How Conservatives Can Finally Get Judicial Nominations Right

Josh Hammer — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:00:32 +0000

The current Supreme Court term is not quite over yet, but conservatives have already suffered notable defeats in cases involving Big Tech censorship and free […]

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Joe Biden’s Executive Amnesty Is Illegal, Unjust and Self-Defeating

Josh Hammer — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:00:09 +0000

During the Constitution ratification debates between the Federalists (who supported ratification) and the Anti-Federalists (who opposed it), one of the most strident areas of disagreement […]

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Joe Biden, Dearborn Shahid, Commits Political Suicide via Hamas Appeasement

Josh Hammer — Mon, 06 May 2024 07:25:26 +0000

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign was much criticized for being “too online.” But Democrats are no less prone to falling into that […]

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Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs

Josh Hammer — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:00:15 +0000

In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock […]

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Hold Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Responsible for Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on Israel

Josh Hammer — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:00:32 +0000

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli—an […]

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Vice President J.D. Vance

Josh Hammer — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:00:47 +0000

Donald Trump has locked up the necessary delegates for the Republican presidential nomination, which means it’s time for every political junkie’s favorite quadrennial game: Veepstakes! […]

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The Path to Victory for Trump

Josh Hammer — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:00:02 +0000

Following this week’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both attained enough delegates to be their respective parties’ presidential nominees this […]

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Liberal Elites Against Democracy

Josh Hammer — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may […]

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Trump’s Fainthearted SCOTUS Picks Could Doom Him in DC Election Case

Josh Hammer — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:00:55 +0000

One of the more underappreciated recent trends in American law and politics, obscured by a few high-profile conservative victories at the Supreme Court and thus […]

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Donald Trump Is Blessed With the Very Best Enemies

Josh Hammer — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:00:54 +0000

On the one hand, Donald Trump, the former and perhaps future president of the United States, seems uniquely hapless. He lost an election unlike any […]

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What Exactly Is Meant by ‘America First’?

Josh Hammer — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:00:41 +0000

The primary slogan of the Trump movement is the simple, now-iconic appeal to “Make America Great Again.” Indeed, “MAGA” is so ubiquitous that it is […]

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This Chanukah, Let’s Vow to Defeat Our New Oppressors: Higher Education

Josh Hammer — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:00:04 +0000

We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon of all hates — forever […]

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Israel Must Finish the Job in Gaza

Josh Hammer — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:14:45 +0000

For a week now, the world has watched a high-stakes, emotionally draining, and dangerous game being played out in Gaza. What began as a mediated […]

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After Hamas Pogrom, Qatar Must Finally Pay For Its Sponsor of Terrorism

Josh Hammer — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:00:19 +0000

In a now-infamous recent podcast recording on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, former President Barack Obama lectured: “You have to admit that nobody’s hands are […]

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Gaza After the War: Biden Needs a Reality Check

Josh Hammer — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:00:45 +0000

As Israel continues its systematic assault on Hamas deep inside Gaza, closing in on high-ranking targets and putting the jihadist outfit’s sprawling subterranean tunnel network […]

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The Gaza Blood Libel and Netanyahu’s Test To Come

Josh Hammer — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:00:14 +0000

he Israel Defense Forces’ much-anticipated ground invasion of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has not yet commenced, but the world’s attention has already begun to shift […]

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The People of Israel Live

Josh Hammer — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:00:28 +0000

I write, of all places, from picturesque Northern Italy. I am here for a wedding where, as the case may be, both bride and groom […]

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Chaos for the Sake of Chaos Is Not Good Governance

Josh Hammer — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:00:07 +0000

In early January, as then-future and now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was in the midst of the political fight of his life, this column […]

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The Missed GOP Debate Opportunity

Josh Hammer — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:00:48 +0000

Wednesday’s second Republican presidential primary debate bore a striking similarity to the first debate one month earlier. Post-debate polls and focus groups indicated Florida Gov. […]

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Hunter’s Gun Indictment: Moment of Truth for Biden Regime

Josh Hammer — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:00:46 +0000

Thursday’s indictment of presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden on three gun-related criminal counts is the latest twist in the long, winding and rapidly escalating saga […]

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‘Bidenomics’ Push Reveals POTUS’s Impotence in Lead-Up to 2024

Josh Hammer — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:00:55 +0000

The 2024 Joe Biden presidential campaign, which has thus far been essentially nonexistent, is now out with a crisp 30-second TV ad titled, “Got to […]

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Republicans, Stop the Self-Defeating Victimology

Josh Hammer — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:00:24 +0000

The American Right is not in a healthy place right now. Facing a highly vulnerable, palpably senile octogenarian incumbent president who has presided over four-decade-high […]

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The Paths Forward for the GOP Presidential Field

Josh Hammer — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:23:39 +0000

Wednesday evening’s much-anticipated first Republican presidential primary debate came and went without an obvious “winner” or dominant figure. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the onstage front-runner […]

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GOP Primary Obviously Isn’t Over, but the First Debate Is Crucial

Josh Hammer — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:44:09 +0000

If one is to believe the prevailing narrative from Donald Trump’s current campaign to retake the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential primary might as […]

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The Pro-Life Dilemma and the Politics of Prudence

Josh Hammer — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:30:12 +0000

Pro-lifers waited 49 grueling years to see the judicial barbarism of Roe v. Wade finally overturned in last year’s blockbuster Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health […]

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Jack Smith’s Sham Indictment Shows Biden Regime Wants To Face Trump

Josh Hammer — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:00:36 +0000

A federal indictment of former President Donald Trump on charges pertaining to his ham-fisted contestation of the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent Jan. 6, […]

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What Israel’s Protests Are Really About

Josh Hammer — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:33:40 +0000

Many Israelis have once again taken to mass protests in the streets, both in the lead-up to and in the aftermath of the Benjamin Netanyahu-led […]

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Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay the DEI Leviathan

Josh Hammer — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:22:33 +0000

On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s […]

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Democrats’ Assault on ‘Our Democracy’

Josh Hammer — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:36:58 +0000

At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats […]

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Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America

Josh Hammer — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:15:35 +0000

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in […]

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Don’t Let Hunter’s Plea Deal Distract From the Real Biden Problem: Ukraine

Josh Hammer — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 03:01:19 +0000

In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal consummated this week with his […]

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We Are Jews Against Soros

Josh Hammer — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:00:33 +0000

George Soros is an evil man. In fact, he is one of the most evil men currently shaping American and Western politics, and global events […]

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End American Gerontocracy

Josh Hammer — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 03:02:05 +0000

Joe Biden’s viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispensing diplomas to new U.S. Air Force Academy graduates, underscores a terrifying […]

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The Case for Ron DeSantis

Josh Hammer — Sat, 27 May 2023 03:01:53 +0000

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ much-anticipated 2024 presidential campaign is finally here. DeSantis, by any empirical metric or otherwise reasonable estimation, is the only person with […]

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Release the Manifesto

Josh Hammer — Sat, 20 May 2023 03:02:20 +0000

On March 27, a transgender lunatic named Audrey Hale shot up a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter, who tragically killed three […]

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The Great Left-Wing Disinformation Operation Against the Supreme Court

Josh Hammer — Sat, 13 May 2023 03:01:20 +0000

The past five weeks have seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. First, the outlet ProPublica began publishing […]

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Tucker Carlson and the Struggle for Civilizational Sanity

Josh Hammer — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:01:16 +0000

Last Friday, I attended the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for […]

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Disney Is Going To Lose (Again) to DeSantis

Josh Hammer — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:00:48 +0000

The first round of the “Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis v. The Walt Disney Company” fight, held last spring, ended in a clear DeSantis victory […]

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The Only Way Out Is Through

Josh Hammer — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 03:02:48 +0000

In 2017, my friend Rod Dreher published his popular book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Dreher’s basic prescription, already […]

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The Point of No Return

Josh Hammer — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:02:56 +0000

The Roman historian Suetonius described Julius Caesar as timid and noncommittal as he initially approached the Rubicon River—a shallow and narrow waterway that, at the […]

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From Stanford to Israel, Mobocracy Triumphs Over Deliberation

Josh Hammer — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 03:02:49 +0000

The very notion of republican self-governance, which has been a core tenet of Western Civilization since the demise of the great monarchs of Europe, depends […]

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Lowlights in the Woke Capture of Our Institutions

Josh Hammer — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:00:43 +0000

Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been […]

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Ron DeSantis Joins the Fight for Sanity Against the Foreign Policy Blob

Josh Hammer — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:00:31 +0000

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ written statement to Tucker Carlson about the Russia-Ukraine war, heard around the world earlier this week, has caused nothing short of […]

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Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels

Josh Hammer — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 04:01:41 +0000

The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on […]

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Parents and Children Are the GOP Future

Josh Hammer — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:01:47 +0000

The Republican Party’s slow transformation from the Bordeaux-sipping party of Acela Corridor suburbanites into the beer-drinking party of working-class Rust Belt-ers and Sun Belt-ers has […]

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Questions for the Washington Uniparty on Ukraine, One Year Later

Josh Hammer — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:02:35 +0000

Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukrainian premier Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv earlier this week was an unmistakable sign of solidarity with Ukraine on the one-year […]

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Democrats Have No Good Option for 2024

Josh Hammer — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 04:01:48 +0000

Former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s 2024 presidential announcement this week, which makes her the first Republican to […]

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